Condition statements

IF Statement

Provide conditional execution based on the truth value of a condition.

Syntax

IF boolean expression THEN
  sql/psm statements list
[ELSEIF boolean expression THEN
  sql/psm statements list [ELSEIF ...]]
[ELSE
  sql/psm statements list]
END IF

CASE Statement

Provide conditional execution based on truth of search conditions or on equality of operands. This statement is similar to SQL CASE statement with differences:

• after keyword THEN is SQL/PSM statement (not value),
• CASE statement is finished with pair of keywords - END CASE,
• if all conditions are false and the CASE statement is missing the ELSE part then exception '20000' is raised.

PL/pgPSM support comma-separated predicates in simple CASE statement.

Syntax

-- simply CASE
CASE expression
    WHEN comma separated list of values THEN sql/psm statements list
    [ WHEN comma separated list of values THEN sql/psm statements list [...]]
END CASE

-- searching CASE
CASE
    WHEN boolean expression THEN sql/psm statements list
    [ WHEN boolean expression THEN sql/psm statements list [...]]
END CASE